Lunch Seminar with Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho

Texts document a wealth of knowledge about society and historical developments that might otherwise remain beyond our analytical reach, thus offering possibilities for investigating the social dimensions of climate change, including perceptions, impacts, and adaptive responses over time.

This seminar will offer insights into how using text as data can improve our understanding of climate hazards impacts, social adaptation and response measures used to address them. Taís will show how natural language processing can be used to screen and derive information from thousands of scientific papers, reports from the Red Cross actions and national drought planning documents.

The 15 first to arrive will get a vegetarian wrap and a soft drink! Register here: ui.ungpd.com/Events/6cb94187-29ab-4199-ab06-26ac0d144826

Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho is an interdisciplinary researcher who combines data science methods, including machine learning, optimization and text mining, to climate hazards research and water resources planning and management. She holds a PhD in Water Resources from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil and is currently working as a postdoc researcher at the Data Science Center of Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). She was recently awarded a grant from the BMBF – Research for Sustainable Development (FONA) program to establish her research group on integrated water resilience and governance strategies in peri-urban regions.